Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Sans que ses reins m'aient béni, Sans qu'il ait été réchauffé par la toison de mes agneaux;
KJV
If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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: Further, an alms is to be commended if the needy one is comforted by it: wherefore it is written ( Job 31:20 ): "If his sides have not blessed me," and the Apostle says to Philemon (verse 7): "The bowels of the saints have been refreshed by thee, brother." Now a corporal alms i…
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imento pauperem. Si non benedixerunt mihi latera ejus, et de velleribus ovium mearum calefactus est (Job XXXI, 16-20) . Quanto, putamus, vir iste odore terram resperserat in his operibus? Singula opera singula erant aromata. His propriam repleverat conscientiam, ut fetorem putida…
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